The key delivery is the final report DIGIT-FUR Impacts of the digital transformation in the wood furniture industry that is available in ten languages and it is downloadable from the project website. It contains the key results of the project, with a detailed description of the digitization impact on 11 occupational profiles in relation to tasks changes, OHS risks, new and updated needs for skills, knowledge and competencies. It also includes recommendations for sector actors and stakeholders. Moreover, a rich set of different deliverables is now available on the same website. They include: Mapping of initiatives supporting the implementation of Industry Digitalization in across the EU DIGIT-FUR report on the furniture sector status DIGIT-FUR forecasting scenario of the EU wood furniture industry in 2025 Introduction to the occupational changes study The project partners, CENFIM, EFBWW, UEA, EFIC have already started to implement the project follow-up plan when project results will be further disseminated and exploited. A key step of this plan, is the DITRAMA project – Digital transformation manager: leading companies in Furniture value chain to implement their digital transformation. This is a clear demonstration of the importance of DIGIT-FUR outcomes and that their use has already started. Funded by the ERASMUS+ programme and led by CENFIM, it involves all DIGIT-FUR partners and several external experts that contributed to the project implementation and results. It will fine-tune the skills needs for the professional occupational profile of the Digital Transformation Manager, it will produce a new European joint curriculum for this profile and it will deliver an open on-line training for this key figure.

The DIGIT-FUR project, involving 43 European multidisciplinary experts, which carried out a Delphi analysis of how digitalisation will transform during next years the furniture industry in Europe. The project has identified the most probable scenario for the sector in 2025, analysing the effects that digitization may cause in relation to tasks, occupational risks and the new training needs of workers. It was implemented with the financial support of the European Commission and with the support of EFBWW (European Federation of Building and Woodworkers), UEA (Union Européenne de l’Améublement) and EFIC (European Furniture Industries Confederation).

At the conference, the DIGIT-FUR team and experts presented the project results. Participants were welcomed by Ramón Gabarró, president of CENFIM, who defined DIGIT-FUR as the most relevant project that has been carried out within the European Union focusing on analysing the impacts of the Digitization on the future furniture sector.

During the first part of the day, the impacts of the digital transformation on the manufacturing companies were the target of several experts: Josep Maria Ganyet (CEO of the consultancy Mortensen), Danny Scheerlinck (sectorial social dialogue policy officer, DG Employment), Massimiliano Rumignani and Julio Rodrigo (CENFIM Innovation Area), Thomas S. Toftegaard (Aarhus University professor), Ellen Schmitz-Felten (Ocupational Safety specialist) and Jeroen Doom (CEO of WOODWIZE).

The following round table focused on the challenge of VET to respond to workers’ new skills needs. Chaired by Joan Lluís Espinós, General Director of Initial VET and special scheme training of the Education Department of the Catalonia Government, and moderated by Joaquim Solana, CENFIM Cluster Manager, the round table involved Rolf Gehring, political secretary of EFBWW, Roberta Dessi, general secretary of EFIC, Núria Pi, technical director of the Catalan Institute of Professional Qualifications ICQP, and Jaume Cárceles, Director of the Furniture Department of the VET Institut Pere Martell.

All project result are available at DOCUMENTS